Parties for adults post kids?

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Is it me or do adults not hold parties anymore? (kids parties don’t count as get invited to lots of them!) I don’t know if it’s me and my friendship group or whether it’s not the ‘done thing’ once you are mid 30s and have kids? I don’t know if covid is also to blame as know things have changed a bit since then!

We did until my marriage broke up. Then covid hit, haven't held one since but thinking about one soon

I think if you have quite a lot of spare money then it is popular. Other than that it's more bbqs etc. Perhaps?

I think there is a period in your life - when you and your peers have small dc, and the effort (and expense) of co-ordinating everyone getting a babysitter, and then having the energy to tidy and clean your house and sort some food and so forth, is just too overwhelming.

That time does then pass, and you start having people round again.

I personally think birthday party’s over the age of 21 are completely naff! However my MIL thinks otherwise and throws herself a party every year 😳

Why is it naff to want to relax with your friends ?
Or have a dance, or eat, drink and be merry ?

A party doesn't have to be for a birthday, but it is often a convenient hook to hang any get together on.

Although the OP doesn't specify birthday parties only - it could be house warming, or an anniversary, or a divorce party, retirement, or NYE or Christmas drinks or a BBQ or a Eurovision party or a World Cup party, or Eid, or Chinese New Year, or Halloween or Summer Solstice or anything you want to use as a hook.